The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
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Title: | The Time-Bombed Skyscraper | ||
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English Title: | The Time-Bombed Skyscraper | ||
Japanese Title: | 名探偵コナン 時計じかけの摩天楼 (Meitantei Konan: Tokei-jikake no Matenrō) | ||
Original airdate: | April 19, 1997 | ||
English airdate: | October 3, 2006 | ||
Broadcast rating when aired on television: | 21.6% (aired on January 5, 1998) 18.6% (aired on March 24, 2003) 12.9% (aired on March 13, 2006)[1] 8.8% (aired on April 8, 2016) 9.4% (aired on February 5, 2021) | ||
Cast: | Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Hiroshi Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo | ||
Case solved by: | Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on phone) | ||
Director: | Kenji Kodama | ||
Screenplay: | Kazunari Kouchi | ||
Storyboard: | Kenji Kodama Masato Sato | ||
Technical Director: | Masato Sato Yasuichiro Yamamoto (asst.) Kazuo Nogami (asst.) Kazuhiko Ishii (asst.) Atsushi Yano (asst.) | ||
Animation director: | Masatomo Sudo (chief) Akio Kawamura Hirotoshi Takaya Kumiko Shishido Keiko Sasaki Yoshihiro Shimizu Kei Hyodo Seiji Muta Masahiko Itojima (effects) | ||
Character Design: | Masatomo Sudo Sub: Kei Hyoudou, Masahiko Itojima, Yasuhiro Moriki, Akio Kawamura, Yasuichiro Yamamoto | ||
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Theme song: | Happy Birthday | ||
Soundtrack: | Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack | ||
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The Time-Bombed Skyscraper is the 1st movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It was released in Japan on April 19, 1997.
Contents
Characters introduced
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Daizo Kurokawa, a wealthy heart surgeon, was murdered in his own home, hit over the head with a statue. He left a dying message, grabbing the keys of his computer keyboard: JUN.
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Kogoro, wrongly of course, deduces that the dying message pointed to the victim's second wife Mina, saying that "JUN" means June and since June is also called "minazuki" or dry month and Mina was born in June, he wanted to leave a hint that he was murdered by his own wife. Mina is furious. Conan hits Kogoro with his stun-wristwatch and begins explaining the actual facts of the case to the police and the three suspects.
Conan goes to Professor Agasa's house, Conan looks through his mail and finds an unusual-looking letter adressed to Shinichi Kudo, inviting Shinichi to a party. The letter was sent by famous architect Teiji Moriya. Conan decides to call Ran Mouri using his Voice-Changing Bowtie and tells her about the invitation, asking her to go to the party in his stead because he is "too busy with his case" and that Kogoro and "that boy who lives with you" can join her as well.
Ran accepts, under the condition that Shinichi joins her for a movie the following Saturday. Conan, horrified, tries to get her to agree to a later date but she insists it has to be on Saturday, May 3. She also asks "Shinichi" if he prefers red or blue. Conan, confused, replies red is his favourite colour and says goodbye to Ran. He has no idea why Ran insists on meeting Shinichi on May 3. On the way home, he meets Inspector Megure who introduces him to another constable working in his department, Ninzaburo Shiratori.
At home, Ran tells Conan and Kogoro that she is going on a date with Shinichi on May 3. She wants to take Shinichi to a late showing at the cinema and, at midnight, surprise him with a red polo shirt because he said red was his favourite colour. Conan suddenly remembers that Shinichi birthday is on May 4. Ran also explains about the tea party invitation and Kogoro isn't exactly enthusiastic about going, so Conan comes up with a trick to convince him.
Ran, Kogoro and Conan attend the tea party at Teiji Moriya's house and explain that Shinichi couldn't make it, but Kogoro came instead, delighting their host at having "another famous detective" as his guest. Moriya greets his guests and gives them a riddle, telling everyone that whoever solves it first gets a private tour of his gallery. Conan quickly figures it out and Moriya takes him and Ran upstairs. They chat with the famous architect and Ran says that she is going on a date with Shinichi and they will go watch a film in a building designed by Moriya.
The following day, Ran goes shopping and Conan meets Professor Agasa, asking for his help because he has no idea what to do about his date with Ran. Agasa's TV is on and they watch the news. Someone stole a large quantity of octane from a plant, a gas used to make plastic explosives.
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Worried, Agasa switches the TV off and his phone rings suddenly. Someone using a voice changing device asks for Shinichi so Agasa hands his phone over. The unknown caller explains that he is the one who stole the octane and asks for Shinichi's phone number. Conan gives it to him and the man tells him "go to Greenbelt Park or the kids will die."
Conan hurries to Greenbelt Park and sees his friends Genta Kojima, Ayumi Yoshida, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya playing with a remote controlled plane. Mitsuhiko explains to Conan that a strange man with a beard offered the plane to them. Conan has a closer look and notices that there is a bomb attached to the plane, telling Ayumi to let go of it immediately. Ayumi drops the toy and the antenna on top of the plane breaks, causing it to begin flying around uncontrollably. Conan uses his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and kicks the controller into the plane, blowing it up.
Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko escape in time. When Conan looks at the flames created by the exploding plane, he realises that the bomb was actually filled with plastic explosives and that this was a serious incident.
As he goes home, his phone rings again and someone says there is going to be another bomb waiting for him.
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Conan locates the second bomb and only just about gets it to a deserted place before it blows up. He is knocked back by the blast and hits a tree, falling unconscious.
Conan wakes up in hospital and Inspector Megure informs everyone that there has been another bomb threat, this time somehow related to the train system. The threat carried another cryptic hint, "X the XX". Agasa says the culprit could have a grudge to settle with Shinichi and Megure agrees. They try to remember Shinichi's most famous cases to see if that provides any hint to the bomber's identity.
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Megure recalls a past case that was solved by Shinichi.
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Shinichi was called by Megure to help investigations.
Conan figures out the hint- the bombs are located between the rail tracks (X the XX) based on the bomber's other hints to keep the trains going above 60 km/h and that the bombs would explode at sunset. They realise the bombs are using solar power to reset their timers. As sunset approaches, the police help navigate the trains off the tracks and are able to safely recover all five bombs.
Megure and Shiratori, together with Conan and Kogoro, go to question Teiji Moriya.
People
Resolution
Translation changes
Anime
- The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:
- Daizo Kurokawa - Magnum Cornhouser
- Mina Kurokawa - Mina Cornhouser
- Daisuke Kurokawa - Mortimer Cornhouser
- Manami Nakazawa - Manami Goodsbe
- Teiji Moriya - Leo Joel
- In the English Dub, the name of Manami's husband is Kevin. He was not named in the original version.
- In the English Dub, neither Kohei Okamoto or Mayor Okamoto are addressed by their name.
Trivia
- According to The Legend of Red Thread poster, the movie's original author is Issei Shinnai and it is directed by Shunzo Kano while starring Sansei Takayama and Wakkanai Yamazaki.
- In the flashback scene, Kohei Okamoto and his father drive a 1996 silver Toyota Crown Majesta S150. The license plate number is 新宿 33, す 32-59 (Shinjuku 33, Su 32-59).
- In Night Baron Murder Case, Akiko Sayama was watching a movie on TV where there was a bomb on a skyscraper, referencing this case.
- The TR Beika Line in real-life is JR Yamanote Line and the JR Tokyo inspired from JR Yamanote Line 205-0 series set 30.
- Shinichi/Conan's birthday is May 4th.
- First visible proof of Conan having a phone for just Shinichi, which is probably different from Conan's phone, although this is not canon.
- The name of Moriya Teiji is a pun on the name of Sherlock Holmes' antagonist Professor James Moriarty if written as "Moriarty J."
- The Beika City Building in real-life is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
- The tradition of inviting guest voice actor to promote the movie did not start until The Raven Chaser. However, this movie has some guest voice actors. Yomiuri TV announcer Meidai Nomura as announcer Satoshi Yokoyama, Shuji Kawatani and Hiroyuki Kohori of comedy duo 2-cho Kenju as train passengers.
Music
End credit music: Happy Birthday, by Kyoko.
Gallery
In other languages
References
See also
- Movies
- Animation directed by Masatomo Sudo
- Animation directed by Akio Kawamura
- Animation directed by Hirotoshi Takaya
- Animation directed by Kumiko Shishido
- Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki
- Animation directed by Yoshihiro Shimizu
- Animation directed by Kei Hyodo
- Animation directed by Seiji Muta
- Animation directed by Masahiko Itojima